One semi-surprising benefit of the global downturn in the PC market is it’s making DRAM much more affordable. A new report states that companies that purchase memory from manufacturers such as Micron and SK Hynix have reduced their orders, lowering demand. That caused the average selling price of DRAM to …
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The wave power generation technology of Australia’s Carnegie Clean Energy will move to the next phase of a competitive funding program in Europe, after making “substantial progress” during phase one tank testing in Spain. Carnegie says its wholly owned subsidiary CETO Wave Energy Ireland has secured a new contract for …
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In the good old days, “exact” meant exact. Then things got fuzzier. Now they’re about to get downright blurry. On Friday afternoon, Google announced another change to the way exact match targeting works in AdWords. Matching for close variants — plurals, typos, abbreviations, adverbs and so on — will be broadened to include …
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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology plans to conduct a 14-month “clean-up” of Internet access services, including a major crackdown on virtual private networks, or VPNs. Without official endorsement, no cable business nor VPN can do business inside China, and no individual can use a VPN without permission. VPNs are already under …
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Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray is the new world number one and it could prove beneficial to back the British athlete to go all the way in the first major of the calendar year in 2017. Murray has been there or thereabouts in the Melbourne-based event, losing in five …
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Samsung is increasing its focus on the connected car after the Korean firm announced plans to buy auto and audio product maker Harman in an all cash deal worth $8 billion. You may best associate the name with audio equipment, but Harman is big on cars, too. The acquisition is Samsung’s largest …
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